Getting Skills Right: Future-Ready Adult Learning Systems

With digitalisation, deepening globalisation and population ageing, the world of work
is changing. The extent to which individuals, firms and economies can harness the
benefits of these changes critically depends on the readiness of adult learning systems
to help people develop relevant skills for this changing world of work. This report
presents the key results from the Priorities for Adult Learning (PAL) Dashboard which
facilitates comparisons between countries along seven dimensions of the readiness
of adult learning systems to address future skill challenges. Based on the dashboard,
the report highlights in which areas action is needed, and policy examples from OECD
and emerging countries throughout the report illustrate how these actions could be
implemented.